Keywords: SO3C over Lafayette fake 1943.jpg A SO3C Seamew flies over the wreckage of Lafayette ex Normandie a French passenger liner that was procured by the United States 17 August 1943 wrong 12 December 1941 While being converted to a troop ship it caught fire at the New York Passenger Ship Terminal U S Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No 2009 006 097 http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/common/imagedisplay php irn 36211 reftable ecatalogue refirn 25400 QueryPage 2FQuery php 1943 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy Curtiss SO3C floatplanes Normandie ship 1935 Hell's Kitchen Manhattan |